Festival 1 on the docket for PeteHatesMusic.com this summer is Ottawa’s RBC Bluesfest. Hardly a festival for just blues, the strength of this festival is the wide array of different acts music nerds like us get to experience. Check back...
Another Member Quits Nine Inch Nails First it was Eric Avery, and now Adrian Belew of Crimson has quit Nine Inch Nails, just 24 hours after NIN announced a world tour (via Consequence of Sound). Well that just belews (see...
Festival d’été de Québec – Mon Dieu! I have no clue what I just wrote. But if you somehow do, you might have gathered that Quebec City is hosting the aptly named Quebec City Summer Festival this summer. It runs...
The Brit Awards Wrap Up My coverage and interest in the 2013 Brit Awards highly differed from 2012, when I lived 3 Tube stops away from the O2 Arena in London. Speaking of the Tube, Muse’s Matt Bellamy took the...
Cue the Endless Led Zeppelin Reunion Interview Questions Led Zeppelin reformed (sans John Bonham, of course – but with his son) for a one-off epic show in London in 2007. The demand for tickets was outrageous, and so was the...
Grammy Awards Had 28 Million Viewers, Needed Someone Famous to Die Right Before Show Again The Grammy Awards had massive viewership in 2012, thanks in part to Whitney Houston dying the weekend of the show. Sunday night’s show was down...
So the Grammys Were Last Night… The Grammy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles. There were lots of performances, a few stand out moments, and even time for a few awards. I won’t rehash all of the winners...
Ke$ha to Get Reality Show on MTV (Based on Documented Footage) Ke$ha is set to get a reality show of sorts on MTV. Yippy? It has nothing to do with hoarding or getting pregnant (at least I don’t think), but...
The Mars Volta are No More Given that At The Drive-In recently reunited for a few shows, and the fact that Omar Rodríguez-López is in a new band called Bosnian Rainbows, people might have wondered what is happening to the...
With the holidays (and that apocalypse) upon us, things are winding down here at PeteHatesMusic. We’re making today our last Morning Music Notes of the year. We’ll follow up with our Top Tracks of 2012 today, our Top Albums of...
The 2013 Grammy Nominations Are Out Who’s happy and who’s sad? The Grammy nominations were announced last night, and they’ve gone a little less mainstream. Some of the nominees include year-end list topper Frank Ocean, Jack White, The Black Keys,...
The Black Keys Settle Lawsuits Against Pizza Hut and Home Depot Sometimes songs just sound similar (see: Offspring and Foo Fighters). Other times, there is a blatant attempt to capitalize on the popularity of a song without actually paying the...
The Black Keys are robots. There is no other logical explanation (except time travel, which is a theory I like, too). They make lots of albums. They go on long tours. Even when they are making a new album, which...
You’ve heard the rap-rock track by the Black Keys and RZA, and maybe you’ve heard the entire album, but now you can see the video for this track. It’s got Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, RZA, fortune cookies, and kung-fu. Pretty...
We’ve been waiting for this album for awhile, and now we get an advanced preview. Wu-Tang member RZA makes his directorial debut in the Quentin Tarantino Present: The Man With The Iron Fists movie. We’ve heard a slew of good...
